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What is an XML Sitemap?

An XML sitemap is a fairly simple XML file that contains information about one or more URLs on your Web site. The information that is stored there helps search engines better spider your site. All it needs to be is a list of URLs for your Web site, but to get more out of it, you want to include other information as well:

• Last modified time
  This is a date or date and time when the file was last modified.
• How often the file is modified
  This allows you to define how often the content is modified. It doesn’t require the search engines to respider it that often.
• Define the priority of a page
  With priority you can indicate if a page is more or less important than other pages in the sitemap. This will not increase or decrease your page’s priority against other Web sites, only against pages within the current site.

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